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Kevin Le Gendre is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work focuses on Black music.


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Kevin Le Gendre [ +] Journalist and Broadcaster The history of soul music has been defined, first and foremost, by a succession of exceptional vocalists. It is impossible to conceive of the genre without them.


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Kevin Le Gendre ISBN number 9781845233617 Pages 374 Price ยฃ19.99 Classification Music Cultural Studies History Country setting United Kingdom Publication date 24 May 2018 The story of Black music in Britain and the people who made it, from Tudor times to the mid 1960s.โ€”


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Kevin Le Gendre Verified Deputy Editor, Echoes Magazine Contributor, BBC Radio 3 London Arts and Entertainment, United Kingdom As seen in: BBC Radio 3, Echoes Magazine, The Guardian, The Independent, Yahoo Canada, Sight & Sound, BFI, All About Jazz, The Times Literary Supplement, Jazzwise, fmq.fi Is this you?


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Kevin Le Gendre Thu 24 Mar 2022 04.00 EDT W hen asked what was the best song he had ever written, the jazz great Duke Ellington famously quipped that it was one yet to come. He held out the.


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Based on: Don't Stop the Carnival: Black music in Britain by Gendre Kevin Le (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press), 374 pp. ยฃ19.96. If you're seeking the history of a people, listen and hearken to their music, the sounds that have followed and expressed their periods of oppression, their key moments, struggles and victories.


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Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster and writer with a special interest in black music. Deputy editor of Echoes, he contributes to a wide range of publications that include Jazzwise,.


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Kevin Le Gendre Mon 8 Nov 2021 03.00 EST W ith a concert at the Proms, a Mercury prize nomination and widespread acclaim for her debut album, Source, Nubya Garcia has had a very good year.


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by KEVIN LE GENDRE (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2018), 374 pp. ยฃ19.96. If you're seeking the history of a people, listen and hearken to their music, the sounds that have followed and expressed their periods of oppression, their key moments, struggles and victories. This is what the Trinidad-rooted writer, music


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Kevin Le Gendre is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work focuses on Black music. He is deputy editor of Echoes magazine, has written for a wide range of publications, including Jazzwise, MusicWeek, Vibrations, The Independent On Sunday and The Guardian, and is a contributor to such radio programmes as BBC Radio 3's J to Z and BBC Radio 4's Front Row.


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Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster and writer with a special interest in black music.


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Inside The British Jazz Invasion with writer Kevin Le Gendre Above: Binker Golding, one half of the sax and drum duo Binker & Moses Credit: Xoel Freire (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)


Black History Month Bringing black music to the cultural mainstream

Composer Ray Lee talks to broadcaster and journalist Kevin Le Gendre about his new piece, 'Ring Out', for PRS Foundation's New Music Biennial 2017.PRS Founda.


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FOR Kevin Le Gendre, the lilting sound of the steel pan is symbolic of how black music has embedded itself into British culture. It's come all the way from Trinidad, where it was invented in the 1930s, to a shopping mall and high street near you โ€” not to mention its annual showcasing at the Notting Hill Carnival.


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Kevin Le Gendre is a journalist and broadcaster with a special interest in black music, literature and culture. Since the 1990s he has written about soul, funk, jazz and hip-hop, as well as African and Caribbean authors, for many publications including Echoes, Jazzwise, The Independent On Sunday, Qwest TV (France) and Times Literary Supplement Online.


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By Kevin Le Gendre | Jazzwise A playful, knowing reference to one of the standout moments in jazz history highlighted the broad vocabulary of Korean artists appearing at this year's K-Music festival. On stage at King's Place Sol Daniel Kim quipped that if 5/4 was good enough for pianist Dave Brubeck then it certainly works for him.